A Compassionate Spy

Horrible account of traitors acting like they are heros. Utterly disgusting.

A cringeworthy, selfish, and annoying account from the perspective of the spy and his wife on their betrayal of America. Only redeeming quality is that it could be a casework study on the intellectual, elite class and how they believe they have all the answers but in reality they are destructive and evil. The wife not only bemoaned her role of motherhood- she demanded her husband live a lie and watch others die for his mistake.

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A lot of interesting information, but not supportive of my world view or philosophies. It wasn't that I didn't agree with what they said, more like I didn't agree with their closed mindedness. Saw on delta.

Bad. Really bad. Difficult to watch. The people involved were portrayed as saints. They're certainly not. And BTW, no one is a physicist at 18 years old. A Compassionate Spy is full of embellishments and misrepresentations. Gross.

This is a very nuanced documentary that is for those who want to hear every side of the story and who are everlastingly searching for the truth. Manhattan Project physicist and Soviet Union spy Theodore Hall is the focus of this feature by legendary documentarian Steve James. Hall's wife, Joan had video footage of her husband just before he passed in 1999. It appears the filmmaker and his wife are attempting to give him a pass for what he did. The bottom line is Hall gave up nuclear secrets to Joseph Stalin and that will always be hard to justify until the end of time which appears closer every passing day. It is a fascinating take and a very interesting issue to parse. Final Score: 7.8/10

Written/directed from the perspective of communist oppressor sympathizers. This film is pure propaganda. I recommend viewers read the Gulag Archipelago, a Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, etc. All of what's going on right now (including this propaganda film) is straight out of the Marxist and Maoist Cultural Devolution playbook to break down society, just like was done in China during Mao's Cultural Devolution with the "Red Guards" and "Struggle Sessions" and countless other Marxist/communist revolutions that led to millions murdered, and oppression for decades. History bears out time and time again that the results of Marxist ideology are absolutely devastating to society and individuals).

Great documentary on a great man especially during this tumultuous period with the United States already having started a proxy war against Russia going on for over a year and with the US provocations for this war starting almost 10 years ago! Despite that the documentary did not single out the aspect of the Soviet "arms catch-up" throughout the entire Cold War that Michael Parenti talked about, despite my strong disagreements with Boria Sax and Joan Hall about those disproven unsubstantiated claims smearing the Soviet Union, what Ted Hall and Saville Sax did was important for global security and what they did saved the world. My points being that the US would start every nuclear production escalation including with US ICMBs in Turkey and Italy that started the Cuban Missile Crisis which is important to educate people about, as opposed to any ridiculous notion pushed in the Western world that the US and Soviet Union were equally guilty when it came to nuclear proliferation. Both major unsubstantiated claims smearing the Soviet Union to maybe to the greatest effect were refuted in declassified documents in the late 1980s and public record since 1968 that was even highlighted by CPUSA leader Gus Hall right after the event. President Harry Truman used to be in the KKK and did everything he could do antagonize the progressive Soviet Union, dropping nuclear bombs on civilian cities to threaten the USSR. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt considered the Soviets to be essential allies and FDR got along with Joseph Stalin much more than the Benito Mussolini-lover Winston Churchill. Even before the US entered WWII, at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, then Senator Truman infamously said "If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible..." which was the exact position that Winston Churchill had. You have to wonder how FDR died at the critical moment that he did in 1945 shortly before the war ended. Now we know that not just 20 million, but 27 million Soviets died in WWII, fighting up to 80% of the Nazi army. With those important facts being emphasized, this documentary is a must-watch. If you understand why Ted Hall and Saville Sax did what they did, then you are serious about wanting peace and understand who the real threat to peace is and was. If you do not understand why Ted Hall and Saville Sax did what they did and at worst, denounce their legacy for it, then you do not seriously want peace and you do not understand who the real threat to peace is and was. The real threats to peace in the world since Ted Hall and Saville Sax were born were the capitalist elites who have all the power in the Western world such as the Rockefellers, Carnegies, DuPonts, Vanderbilts, etc. It is Wall Street and the London Stock Exchange vs. the world.

An absolute must see documentary on the atomic bomb and a couple of families involved!

It's good but completely unfocused on the main story and the climactic ending, non existent. Fairly informative documentary though.